The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-09-09
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.

JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
THIS MODERN STATESMAN NOT EN-
TRANcED BY SOUTHERN ITALY.
He Has Trouble with the "Eyetalian"
for June-Few Plug Hats in the Land
of Sunny Skies-His Impressions of the
Volcano vesuyius-Pompeii
Especial Correspondence
NoPoLIE
DEAR EpIToR-I date this letter "Nopohe,"
because that is the name of the place. !
thought it was Naples. but when went to
the railroad ticket office to git transportation
here this is a sort of interstate commerce
country-no passes for statesmen) asst for
tickets to Naples, and the blamed ticket clerl:
didn't know what l was talking about l
liked to missed the train trying to git him to
understand. and finally drawed a map on
him, and when l pinted it out he said, "Oh,
Nopolie," and give the tickets to me in two
minutes. amt shore I've got it spelt right,
| got fooled On was the name of June.
seen "Giugno" wrote OH the bulletin boards
at every depot we passed dnrin' three days Of
travel The first two days kept wondering
at the similarness of names for stations, and
when / asst man that spoke English who
Gugno was and what he had done to have
everything named after him I discovered
that "Giugno" was Eyetalian for June. Ell
few more of my colleags in congress would
visit this country I think we might pass a
Lili to introduce Eyetalian in the public
schools OF America. ..... b..
We have give up our Willy by the sea and
it was by Mandy's request. 1t done very well
for the fust three or four days. but when
Mandy went to town one day to do little
shoppin'. and, womanlike, began to talk to the
clerks about her Willy and how s'charninglv
delightful" and perfectly magnificent" it was
ITO luxuriate in peaceful rusticity under these
lovely southern Skies" prices began to go up
on her. and she had to pay so much for what
she got that she was plum disgusted, and
when she came home she told me to git ready
to move as soon as our week was up.
***
The plug hat, which was any joy and pride
i'll London, has gradually become an object
of suspicion. In Paris plugs was about as
frequent as they was in London. In Lyons
noticed slight fallin' off in popularity, and
it keeps on dwindlin' away till am afeerd
shall have to git another kind of hat or leave
Italy. I am ivin' in hopes that in Rome
there will be kind of "renassence" chats
art term Mandy has got hold of some way
and has transmitted to mel Of plug hats and
I will be still once more. In Marseilles and
Genoa I didn't see a half dozen on the streets;
in Peezy not single one, and in this town,
while the silk hated man is not molested OF
done bodily injury to, he goes about with a
kind of a feelin' of a king caught in a thunder
shower with his best crown on and no UNI
brella. The straw hat and the darby is the
popular thing, and may yit have to git
Panamaw, like wear in the secusion of the
sacred precincts of my Wayback farm
Sence moving into town Mandy and me
has changed our dolche far monday Chats
Eyetalian for laziness) sort of livin' for a
more active life, and have been site seein'
very busy.
We went up Vesuvius one day and Mandy
came purity near choking to death on the brim-
stone smoke. Vesuvius is a great success as q
Volcano, and it has been doing good business
in erupuon by spells for several thousand.
years. It's good thing to go to the top
about once week to git fumigated and disin-
fected after living among the bedbugs and
f1eas, that keep the town in a constant state
of activity night and day. .......
There's no tellin' how much lava has ran
out of Vesuvius and piled up around it. 1t
is the biggest bile OH the whole face of mater,
as fer as | have seen
Mandy got quite enthusiastic over the view,
and SO did |, fer distance lends enchantment
to Naples. Our guide said when a Naples
man got drunk they took him to the crater
and let him wake up there, and the notion
that be had got to the great elsewhere, ON the
under side, was so strong that he went right
back home and signed the pledge. | hope no
volcanoes will be introduced about Washing
ton; not because am personally interested,
but ON account of some of my official friends
The shock would kill them, shuge.
Another pint of intrust wus Pompeii This
is back ramber town found III looking over
some old flies, as you would say, Mr.. Editor,
in newspaper languidge, and there is con
siderable in it notwithstanding it laid under
an ash pile for about 1900 yers. 1t looks more
like town in my destrick that tried to git
the county seat, when Wayback Center got
it, than any place we have visited.
The Eyetalian silver money in some re-
CARDS reminds me of our own. We make G
dollar with IS cents and call it dollar, and
in Italy they simply call tlleirn a lire and let
it go for what it will bring.
have been studyim hoss flesh on nv
travels, and find the best hosses in England
In France they air scrubby, and in Italy they
air wuss. The donkey is the most useful beast
of burden that goes ON four legs. I have
frequently saw piles of rags and plumber,
stacks of garden truck, and bales of hay
going along the steeets, and by keerful ex-
animation I have always found a donkey
somewhere underneath for the motive power
A good serviceable woman can carry purity
nigh as much as donkey, but she is more
liable to kick out Of the traces, SO an Eytaian
told me that had his wife and donkey bringin
a couple of loads of truck to market.
The purtiest women have ever saw, not
even excepting many beautiful ones have
met in the capital city of our great and glori-
Gus republic, have found in Naples and sur
roundin vicinity. Even Mandy gifts inthusi-
astic sometimes. and when she does branch
out and quote all the poetry at my command
on that most intrusting subject. In mo-
ment of forgetfulness the other day chuclsed
one under the chin that offered to sell me
box of matches, and sense that time have
noticed that Mandy is less admiring than she
WstS. j IUuHu DLo O4 kSleaIlI Ol SdppTY H
last week that could speak English, and when
had talked to her awhile in the sweet insin-
uating way that comes material to me when
lady is around, sho said was just like an
"American gentleman of congress. reck-
onized that she meant member of congress,
and I have been wondering which one or
more of my illnstrious colleags has been doing
this land Of beauty. The description fits so
many of them that amt determined yet on
the guilty parties Upto date | amt struck
neither politics er an American newspaper,
and I am Citing rusty, but my patriotism
grows in ME the more see of the iron heelof
oppression, and wouldn't give one wave of
the American flag for u whole ocean of
thrones and soldiers, and royal professions
and the tawdry trappings Of q king. The
only objection have to the old flag is, that
they don't see it enough down here to tell it
from piece of red and white calico. But
she waves all the same. Yours truly,
w. Q. WAxEM,
~. NJ. c. from Wayback.
He Drove Napoleon's Sledge.
Some Of the Paris papers announce the
death, in little Bavarian village, of Rus
sian peasant who drove the sledge in which
the first Napoleon Travelled from Moscow to